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The large-leaved 3rovmea 



Browne a macrophyll a Linden 



Description of the tree 



A tree 6 to iJi .aeters high, v/ith sparse ramii'icaticn, the 

 yoang twigs villous. Leaves ijarijjinnate , 3 to 6-jxigate, the 

 raohis more or less villoas-pubescent , 20 to 40 cm, long. 

 Leaflets opposite or slteri^ate, the ^.etioluiles thick, 5 to 

 6 mm. long, pilose, the blades elliptic lanceolate, rounded 

 or subacute and glandular at the base, longly acute-acixmi- 

 nate at the apex, 10 to 32 on, long, 2 to 7,5 cm. broad 

 (the terminal pair largest); oosta villous and prominent 

 beneath, the rest of the blade glabrous. Inflorescence in 

 capitate spikes of 30 to 50 flowers each, growing from the 

 trunk and Icwer limbs. Bracts pinkish v/hite, varying from 

 broadly ovate and 2 to 5 cm. long at base of spike to obo- 

 vate-elliptic or lineal, up to 6 cm. long and as little as 

 2 mm. broad at the apex of same, ^lowers fire-red, in the 

 axils of the bracts, pedicellate, the sheath subcampanulate, 

 grayish tomentose without, 3.5 to 4 cm, long, subilabiate with 

 obtuse lobes; receptacle-tube 1.7 cm, long, slightly obco- 

 nical; calyx segments 4, unetjual, about 3 cm, long. Petals 

 spatula te, 5 cm. long, Stamens 11, 10 to 11 cm, long, 

 connate at the base. Pistil about 12 cm. long, the cvary 

 densely tomentose, long stipitate, about l?.-ovulate, the 

 style filiform, the stigma globose-capitate^ Legu:ne net 

 known. 



Description of the wood 



Sapwood thick and very light yellow; heartv/ood high brown. 

 V/ood hard, moderately heavy, strong, very tough, straight 

 and coarse-grained, taking a fairly good polish. It is 

 difficult to split and work on account Af its long fibers 

 whicih im^-ede the action of tools. Annual rings of growth 

 only faintly visible to the unaided eye. 



Pores (transverse section) not numerous, varying from 

 .60 to .14: urn. in diameter, round, usually filled with pa- 

 renchyma tissue, end arranged singly cr in groups of two 

 tc three in radial rows. Vessel walls (longitudinal sec- 

 tion) very thin with numerous minute bordered pits. The 

 ends of the vessel segments are horizontal and completely 



